Fw: Brennan Center report

[John.Borras@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk]

Colleagues

Please see the request below from Patrick.
  The work of the EAC's committee in USA is very important and I would
ask you to take time to read the report and comment back to Patrick.  
It also provides a very good opportunity to publicise the work of our committee
and raise the profile of EML.  You'll see Patrick's  deadline
is end August.

Many thanks,
John

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"Patrick Gannon" <patrick.gannon@oasis-open.org>

17/07/2004 20:49

To	<John.Borras@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk>
cc	"'Karl F. Best'" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>, "'James Bryce Clark'" <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>, "'Scott Mcgrath'" <scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org>, <david.petraitis@oasis-open.org>, "'Pim van der Eijk'" <pim.vandereijk@oasis-open.org>, "'Carol Geyer'" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>, "'Evans, Colin'" <colin.evans@intel.com>
Subject	FW: Brennan Center report

John,
 
Please forward this report to the members of the OASIS Election & Voter
Services TC; requesting their comments over the next few weeks (before
the
end of August if possible).  Please ask them to send their comments
to me.
 
I have been asked to comment on the report directly to the Director of
the
US National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) and to the Director
of the US Election Assistance Commission (EAC).  Specifically, they
want to
know what standards from OASIS should be considered by the EAC's Technology
Guidelines Development Committee (on which I serve).  I would like
to be
able to help position the EML specification as a candidate for their
recommendation, but I need to be able to position it within the context
of
the voting process.  The EAC is interested not only in standards related
to
election systems, but also standards that relate to security and
authentication of the systems and data used in the voting process (voter
registration information, etc.).  They are also interested in the
conformance and implementation testing of systems and software used in
the
voting process.
 
They are also interested in experience from other countries who have
implemented secure voting systems, so the international participant comments
are especially appreciated.
 
For background information, members can review presentations made at a
symposium on voting systems from last December 2003.
 
http://realex.nist.gov/votingstandards/
 

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________________________________

From: Allan Eustis [mailto:allan.eustis@nist.gov] 
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 11:39 AM
To: patrick.gannon@oasis-open.org
Subject: Brennan Center report


Patrick-

  I have attached the Brennan Center report. You and your staff should
feel
free to review. Please send any comments you have on the reports findings
to
the two e-mail addresses below as well as a :CC to me.
Arden Bement <abement@nsf.gov>
dbsoaries@eac.gov

(Commissioner Soaries is Chair of the Election Assistance Commission)

many thanks



Allan C. Eustis
Project Leader- NIST Voting Systems Standards
Technology Building 225 Room B257
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8901
 Gaithersburg , Md.  20899-8901
301-975-5099
allan.eustis@nist.gov
http://vote.nist.gov <http://vote.nist.gov/> 




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voting_systems_final_recommendations.pdf